Sunan ad-Darimi 1536
✧ The man does not know whether he prayed three or four.
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ هُوَ ابْنُ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ الْمَاجِشُونُ أَنْبَأَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ أَسْلَمَ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
«إِذَا لَمْ يَدْرِ أَحَدُكُمْ أَثَلَاثًا صَلَّى أَمْ أَرْبَعًا فَلْيَقُمْ فَلْيُصَلِّ رَكْعَةً ثُمَّ لِيَسْجُدْ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ سَجْدَتَيْنِ فَإِنْ كَانَ صَلَّى خَمْسًا شَفَعَتَا لَهُ صَلَاتَهُ وَإِنْ كَانَ صَلَّى أَرْبَعًا كَانَتَا تَرْغِيمًا لِلشَّيْطَانِ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullāh
- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
- Ibn Abū Salamah al-Mājishūn
- Zayd b. Aslam
- ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār
- Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ “If one of you does not know whether he prayed three or four, let him stand and pray a rakʿah, then afterwards prostrate twice. If he had prayed five, they make his prayer even; and if he had prayed four, they are a humiliation for Satan.”
Notes
قَالَ أَبُو مُحَمَّد «آخُذُ بِهِ»
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- Qurṭubī
حديث أبي سعيد أرسله مالك عن عطاء وأسنده غيره فكان هذا اضطرابا فيه والتسليم عن ذلك أرجح
machine translationThe hadith of Abū Saʿīd: Mālik transmitted it as a mursal report from ʿAṭāʾ, while others transmitted it with a connected chain (musnad). This is therefore an inconsistency (iḍṭirāb) in it, and yielding to that is more preferable.
in مسند الدارمي, p. 1532
Narrators
- He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AHأَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), a man of admonitions and worship.d. 94 AH, or 97 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AHعَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍثقة فاضل ، صاحب مواعظ وعبادةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a scholar, and he would narrate with omission of the Companion link (yursil)d. 135 AH or 136 AHزَيْدُ بْنُ أَسْلَمَثقة عالم ، وكان يرسلأنبأنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist, authord. 164 AH, or 166 AHعَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ هُوَ : ابْنُ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ الْمَاجِشُونُثقة ، فقيه ، مصنفحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 227 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة حافظأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHالدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.